"A More Perfect Union" by L.E. Modesitt

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This is our discussion of the short story....

"A More Perfect Union" by L.E. Modesitt. Jr

From the scifi anthology The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, part of our discussion of The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination anthology.

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I haven't read a lot of Modesitt, despite his obvious popularity, and the story didn't exactly sell me on the author.

Sort of reimagines Hari Seldon as a political consultant as an Evil Genius, and then lays out a large political agenda.

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[Jim]

I've read a lot (everything?) by Modesitt & really got a kick out of this. I was alternately laughing or horrified by the various trends Modesitt laid out & the tactics his mad scientist took used to create his dictator. It was all so perfectly reasonable & horrible.